The critics awards are off and running after the New York Film Critics Circle announced its picks for the best of the year yesterday, and today the National Board of Review has named Her the best picture of 2013. Spike …

The first official trailer is now available for writer/director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills. The Romanian drama centers on two best friends who grew up together in an orphanage. When one of the women seeks refuge in a convent and …

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have reduced the number of eligible foreign films to nine. For those who don’t know how the Best Foreign Language Film category works, every foreign country can submit one movie for consideration. …

Last week, I noted how Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or-winning film Amour was skipping the Venice and Toronto, and going straight to the New York Film Festival. Today, TIFF has announced that Amour will be gracing their festival as part of …

The full line-up for the 2012 New York Film Festival has been announced. I’ve been impressed with the line-ups for the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, but they both have a surprising omission: Michael Haneke‘s Amour, …

Another Cannes, another win for Michael Haneke. Haneke won the Grand Jury Prize in for The Piano Teacher in 2001, Best Director for Caché in 2005, and the festival’s top honor, the Palme d’Or, for The White Ribbon in 2009. …